Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of Womankind, 1540-1620 |
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... traditions both contained favorable views of women : the clas- sical tradition offered Plato's remarks on the equality of women ; the Judaic had its Deborahs , Sarahs , and Esthers ; the medieval Christian tradition contributed ...
... traditions both contained favorable views of women : the clas- sical tradition offered Plato's remarks on the equality of women ; the Judaic had its Deborahs , Sarahs , and Esthers ; the medieval Christian tradition contributed ...
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... traditions in which the conventional sexual hierarchy is reversed to give dominance to the woman — the aristocratic tradition of courtly love and the bourgeois tradition of the wife wearing the breeches . Both are important to the ...
... traditions in which the conventional sexual hierarchy is reversed to give dominance to the woman — the aristocratic tradition of courtly love and the bourgeois tradition of the wife wearing the breeches . Both are important to the ...
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... tradition , the wife wearing the breeches - a satiric tradition clearly not under the patronage of women - exhibits the same pattern of female dominance . It seems not unreasonable to argue , again , that the similarity was mediated by ...
... tradition , the wife wearing the breeches - a satiric tradition clearly not under the patronage of women - exhibits the same pattern of female dominance . It seems not unreasonable to argue , again , that the similarity was mediated by ...
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Exordium I | 1 |
The Genre | 13 |
The Elizabethan Controversy | 49 |
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